PHP ord() Function
Definition
The ord() function returns the equivalent ASCII value.
Syntax
PHP ord() Function has the following syntax.
int ord ( string str ) Parameter
str is the string value to convert.
Return
The ord() function returns the equivalent ASCII value.
Note
The chr() function does the opposite of ord().
It takes an ASCII value and returns the equivalent character.
Example
Check the character ASCII value
<?PHP//from w w w. j a v a2 s . com
$mystr = "A demo from java2s.com\n";
if (ord($mystr{1}) == 83) {
print "The second letter in the string is S\n";
} else {
print "The second letter is not S\n";
}
?>
The code above generates the following result.
